Re: jessie-updates gone

[Pierre Fourès <pierre.foures@gmail.com>]

Thanks a lot Adam for the clarification.

Now that Jessie is in LTS and that jessie-updates/ is gone, does this
also mean there won't be any other updates to tzdata, clamav, or
similar (timely dependent's) packages ?

Or if still updated, where does we got them from ? I guess it's not
from security updates ?

Regards,
Pierre.

Le ven. 29 mars 2019 à 17:02, Adam D. Barratt
<adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> a écrit :
>
> On Fri, 2019-03-29 at 11:13 +0100, Pierre Fourès wrote:
> > The way I understand it, but I asked for clarification and
> > confirmation in my previous message [1], is that all « updates » goes
> > into -proposed-updates/, but the one who need to be quickly applied
> > into the distribution (but aren't security updates) are duplicated
> > from -proposed-updates/ into -updates/. Theses are the updates who
> > can't wait and must be applied between the point releases. Then, when
> > point releases occurs, all packages in -proposed-updates/ moves into
> > the stable repository of the distribution. They are automatically
> > removed from -proposed-updates/. This isn't true for the -updates/
> > repository as it requires manual pruning. Nonetheless, all packages
> > in
> > -updates/ went into the stable repository (from the -proposed-updates
> > they originated from) when the point-release occurred. So nothing is
> > lost. But is that right ?
>
> Yes - see https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/03/msg000
> 10.html , linked from every post to the debian-stable-announce list.
> (There will probably be a better URL somewhere on release.d.o once
> someone finds sufficient tuits to actually make it.)
>
> The removal of packages from p-u after adding them to stable is part of
> the actions performed by ftp-master during the point release (easily
> done as the package sets are the same). Technically, it is possible for
> an update from -updates / p-u to not be included in a point release,
> but that will usually be due to a regression being found before the
> point release, and in such cases there will likely be a follow-up
> update.
>
> Regards,
>
> Adam
>